While the works of Antitrinitarian thinker and religious leader Szymon Budny (ca. 1530-93) have been subject extensive scholarly research, his library, marginalia, reading practices significantly less examined. Following discovery a copy Cyril Jerusalem’s Mystagogical Catechisms (Vienna, 1560) belonging to Budny, I analyze Budny’s notes comments regarding Latin translation Cyril’s text as case ...

this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...

Abstract This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city eastern Germany, over past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on ways which semantic choices streetscape are recruited to canonize traces national “supportive hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate from variationist sociolinguistics,...

A new player, e.g., an entrant, joining an existing game generally allows more value to be created, but also creates new alternatives for existing players. Greater value expands the range of equilibrium appropriation levels for an existing player, in particular, lowering the minimum equilibrium appropriation. The emergence of new alternatives has the opposite e¤ect. We say a player has competit...

Even though integrating technological tools into teaching and learning scenarios is an agreed upon goal it is still far from being fully implemented. This study examines a process of integration of a technological tool, to which a group of teachers participated. The technological tool was developed to enhance dialogism and argumentation, in one Grade 9 class. The question we focused on concerns...

American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder’s lifelong attraction to passion for if not obsession with the work of James Joyce has led unintended consequences. Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin Our Teeth, while in midst “unriddling” Joyce’s final novel, Finnegans Wake. Accusations plagiarism subsequently arise from two major scholars, Jos...

Recent scholarship on the appropriation of advanced information technology in professional settings has utilized adaptive structuration theory (AST) to move beyond voluntaristic and deterministic perspectives on workplace interaction. Our study seeks to advance the paradigm of adaptive structuration in both theoretical and empirical terms. First, we make a case for a reconceptualization of the ...